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Vitamins Bring Down God’s Wrath
The same pharmacists who object to filling emergency contraception prescriptions are now refusing to fill prescriptions from any woman’s clinic that conducts abortions–regardless of what the prescription is. That includes vitamins and antibiotics.
Whoa.
9 Responses to “Vitamins Bring Down God’s Wrath”
These pharmacists who refuse to honor perscriptions state that they do so because of some religious beliefs. Whatever those faiths may be, they are not Christian. Christians follow the teachings of Jesus and his teachings say that Christians should not judge others (judge not least ye be judged) and not condemn others as sinners for they are sinners as well (let you who are w/o sin cast the first stone, why do you seek to remove the splinter from another’s eye when you have a log in your own).
We should take this as an opportunity to call them out as the hypocritics that they are. Ask them “Which of Jesus’ teachings are you following when you do the things that you do” and when they fail to answer, inform them of which of Jesus’ teachings they are disobeying. And if they say they are following the old testament or something from the epistles or something, remind them that they are Christians and that they need to be obeying Christ’s teachings first and always.
The pharmacists who refuse to honor perscriptions state that they do so because of some religious beliefs. Whatever those beliefs may be, they are not Christian. Christians follow the teachings of Jesus and his teachings say that Christians should not judge others (judge not least ye be judged) and not condemn others as sinners for they are sinners as well (let you who are w/o sin cast the first stone, why do you seek to remove the splinter from another’s eye when you have a log in your own).
We should take this as an opportunity to call them out as the hypocritics that they are. Ask them “Which of Jesus’ teachings are you following when you do the things that you do” and when they fail to answer, inform them of which of Jesus’ teachings they are disobeying. And if they say they are following the old testament or something from the epistles or something, remind them that they are Christians and that they need to be obeying Christ’s teachings first and always.
Sorry for the double post. The “post comment” was giving me some problems.
Any pharmacist who refuses to fill a prescription needs to be fired. Their job isn’t to enforce their religion their job is to fill prescriptions.
This example is simply stupid. Vitamins? C’mon.
But since Minnesota is considering some sort of conscience law, it’s worth delving into.
As I argue in my own post on the subject, I don’t think we need to force every pharmacist to dispense every and all medication that exists. By the same token, pharmacists should not receive special legal protection for such refusal. They’re free to refuse; their employer is free to fire them. Self-employed pharmacists are free to do anything they want.
There ought to be a few narrow exceptions, though, such as that rare case of a small town with only one pharmacy and no competition for 50 miles. In most cases there’s room for meeting the demands of both pharmacist and patient, but when it comes down to it a pharmacist’s conscience does not trump a patient’s health.
Furthermore, checkout the reason why they denied the particular prescriptions. It wasn’t the medicine itself but because of moral objections to the partnership, an abortion clinic, that the doctor writing the prescription was a member of. These people get more and more warped while crying about how persecuted they are. When will we wake up to the truth of their insanity?
If a pharmacist finds themselves morally unable to fill any valid prescription, then they need to find another line of work. If they lack the moral courage to quit, then they need to be fired.
You are damn right Brian.
Why not?!?
That’s what pharmacists do, dispense drugs. If my doctor wrote the prescription, they should fill it. Period. Don’t like it get another job. Can I work at Krogers and say I will not check out any alcohol?